In spite of the title，this article will really be on how not to grow old，which，at my time of life，is a much more important subject．My first advice would be to choose your ancestors carefully．Although both my parents died young，I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors． My maternal grandfather，it is true，was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven，but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty．Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a disease which is now rare，namely，having his head cut off．A great-grandmother of mine，who was a friend of Gibbon，lived to the age of ninety-two，and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants．My maternal grandmother，after having nine children who survived, one who died in infancy, and many miscarriage，as soon as she became a widow devoted herself to women’s higher education．She was one of the founders of Girton College，and worked hard at opening the medical profession to women．She used to relate how she met in Italy an elderly gentleman who was looking very sad．She inquired the cause of his melancholy and he said that he had just parted from his two grandchildren.“Good gracious,” she exclaimed, “ I have seventy-two grandchild, and if I were sad each time I parted from one of them, I should have a dismal existence!” “Madre snaturale,” he replied．But speaking as one of the seventy-two，I prefer her recipe．After the age of eighty she found she had some difficulty in getting to sleep，so she habitually spent the hours from midnight to 3 a．m．in reading popular science．I do not believe that she ever had time to notice that she was growing old．This，I think，is the proper recipe for remaining young．If you have wide and keen interests and activities in which you can still be effective，you will have no reason to think about the merely statistical fact of the number of years you have...

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